Mostly Aesthetics

The Devil Quoting Scripture

Recently I picked up a book of Great American Speeches and found, to my disappointment, that the speeches of the nation’s founders were followed by a…

Dec 6 • 

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November 2025

On thought-rhyme; or, parallelism as a poetic technique

Poems don’t need meter, in our free verse age.

Nov 29 • 

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Rudolf Hoess Interviewed at Nuremberg

Rudolf Hoess Interviewed at Nuremberg Those were my orders, and the way they came Compelled belief and blind obedience. I was to enlarge the camp, build…

Nov 22 • 

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Everything Old is New Again: The Scarlet Letter

While in jail, the ghostbusters study the blueprints of the apartment building that, it will turn out, is a portal to a demon world, and they notice…

Nov 16 • 

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“I was like a wounded animal...”

The worst pain I ever felt was a broken arm.

Nov 8 • 

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Publication Day

Today American Independence in Verse takes its first halting steps into the wider world.

Nov 4 • 

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Naive Reviews: John Donne’s Holy Sonnets, Part 1

The moment of greatest ecstasy, in any of the Holy Sonnets I-IX, is in Sonnet VII:

Nov 1 • 

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October 2025

Julius Streicher Interviewed at Nuremberg

Julius Streicher founded and edited the anti-Semitic German tabloid Der Stürmer.

Oct 25 • 

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The Leftovers

The loyalists were American colonists who rejected independence.

Oct 19 • 

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Young American

George Washington’s complete writings run past thirty-nine volumes, a bit much even for the father of a country.

Oct 11 • 

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On the Origin of the Pilgrim Church by William Bradford

A poem

Oct 4 • 

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September 2025

“Apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables...”

On Blank Verse

Sep 26 • 

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